Community Development Journal, 40(4), October 2005, pp.405-418.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Even before World War II, the settlement movement in the United Kingdom inspired people in the Netherlands to establish community and neighbourhood centres in urban as well as in rural areas, which developed a wide range of social cultural activities including support for the unemployed. In 1926 the first community development agency appeared in the northern province of Drente, where many workers from the peat areas were unemployed, poor and badly housed. The Central Association for the community development in Drenthe (Centrale Vereeniging voor de opbouw van Drenthe) had as a major goal the promotion of the cultural, economic and sanitary reconstruction of Drente. One of the principles adopted was the involvement of the people themselves: participation alongside the contribution of professionals, effectively community development workers ‘avant la lettre’.
Even before World War II, the settlement movement in the United Kingdom inspired people in the Netherlands to establish community and neighbourhood centres in urban as well as in rural areas, which developed a wide range of social cultural activities including support for the unemployed. In 1926 the first community development agency appeared in the northern province of Drente, where many workers from the peat areas were unemployed, poor and badly housed. The Central Association for the community development in Drenthe (Centrale Vereeniging voor de opbouw van Drenthe) had as a major goal the promotion of the cultural, economic and sanitary reconstruction of Drente. One of the principles adopted was the involvement of the people themselves: participation alongside the contribution of professionals, effectively community development workers ‘avant la lettre’.
Euthanasia is a bureaucratic process in the Netherlands and nurses are invariably involved in the decision. But though Dutch law has decriminalised the doctor's role in mercy killing, the role of the nurse is still not recognised. The author talks to Dutch nurses about their experiences.
Euthanasia is a bureaucratic process in the Netherlands and nurses are invariably involved in the decision. But though Dutch law has decriminalised the doctor's role in mercy killing, the role of the nurse is still not recognised. The author talks to Dutch nurses about their experiences.
Contains sections on: exploring a common drug control space; the present space in EC and national laws; and conclusions and recommendations. Countries looked at are: Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Spain, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the United Kingdom.
Contains sections on: exploring a common drug control space; the present space in EC and national laws; and conclusions and recommendations. Countries looked at are: Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Spain, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the United Kingdom.
Subject terms:
law, prevention, drug misuse;
Location(s):
Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Europe, Finland, France, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom
Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities, 11(2), 2017, pp.65-73.
Publisher:
Emerald
This paper describes an important part of the New Dutch Care and Coercion Act (Wet zorg en dwang) concerning reporting the use of coercive measures. The implications of reporting the use of coercive measures have been discussed at a meeting for experts in mental health law and the care of people with an intellectual disability. The issue has been presented to the participants as neutrally as possible, so...
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to advance a number of outlooks on the reporting of the use of coercive measures in the care for persons with intellectual disabilities. The following questions will be discussed: which forms of involuntary care should be externally reported and how is this external reporting influenced by environmental and other factors?
Design/methodology/approach: This paper describes an important part of the New Dutch Care and Coercion Act (Wet zorg en dwang) concerning reporting the use of coercive measures. The implications of reporting the use of coercive measures have been discussed at a meeting for experts in mental health law and the care of people with an intellectual disability. The issue has been presented to the participants as neutrally as possible, so as to provide the researchers a comprehensive picture of the different views on reporting the use of coercive measures. The outcome of this meeting has served as the input for a further step in the research – using the Delphi method – in order to address the issue comprehensively.
Findings: The Dutch legislation on reporting involuntary care implies that measures carried out only in the face of resistance should be externally reported. The experts that participated in this study endorse the importance of a real-time external reporting system. They believe that standardized and reliable external reporting requires involuntary care, the categories of involuntary care and the environmental and other factors that affect external reporting to be defined more concretely. They regard environmental and other factors as decisive for assessing whether a measure constitutes involuntary care. This in turn, therefore, has consequences for whether such incidents should be reported.
Research limitations/implications: Many concepts in the new Dutch Care and Coercion Act (Wet zorg en dwang) are not formally defined. Instead, the legislator has left it to those in the field to decide how they should be interpreted. This prompted many questions from those attending the expert meeting and in our own analysis. The researchers could possibly have resolved this confusion during the meeting by formulating more detailed definitions of terms such as “resistance” and “involuntary care” beforehand. The disadvantage of this, however, would have been that those attending the meeting would have had no opportunity to define the terms on the basis of their own expertise. As a result, the researchers have obtained all relevant information comprehensively to use as the input for the next step of the research, which employs the Delphi method.
Practical implications: This viewpoint emphasises the need to take a wide range of factors into account throughout the process in order to establish whether care can be seen as involuntary. The researchers regard the care providers’ expertise in dealing with these factors – client factors, and behavioural or environmental factors, for example – as being of essential importance if care is to be recognised as involuntary and reported as effectively as possible. Therefore, the researchers discuss whether the legal position of clients is protected if care providers register only those forms of involuntary care where there is obvious resistance. In this case, many forms of resistance are overlooked, which may be to the detriment of the legal protection of clients with intellectual disabilities. However, the system in the UK shows that it can be quite complicated to develop a clear definition of involuntary care that is usable in practice, without giving rise to an enormous amount of bureaucracy and thus distracting from the real issue: protecting the legal position of clients with an intellectual disability.
Originality/value: Academic papers clearly demonstrate that external reporting of involuntary care has not yet become properly established, either in the Netherlands or elsewhere, such as in the UK. This paper seeks to provide insights into new Dutch legislation about external reporting of involuntary care. By organising a meeting with experts, the factors that have so far acted as obstacles in the reporting of involuntary care are problematized. The findings of this paper will help to further the process of developing an effective system for reporting involuntary care.
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Disability and Society, 20(6), October 2005, pp.641-654.
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
This article is about the disability movement in the Netherlands and its strategies for empowerment of disabled people. Only since the end of 2003 has the Netherlands enjoyed antidiscrimination legislation for disabled people. But, how important actually is legislation for the empowerment of disabled people? To answer this question, the authors take a closer look at social movements and their involvement in empowerment and active citizenship. We criticise the disregard of differences and care in notions of active citizenship and propose instead the idea of a ‘varied society’ based on the notions of diverse and ‘careful citizenship’. One of the main arguments is that empowerment strategies necessary to create this kind of society are above all bottom-up strategies. However, the highly organised disability movement in the Netherlands is confronted with strategic paradoxes that have ‘depowering’ consequences. Based on these paradoxes, five recommendations for the disability movement in the Netherlands are presented.
This article is about the disability movement in the Netherlands and its strategies for empowerment of disabled people. Only since the end of 2003 has the Netherlands enjoyed antidiscrimination legislation for disabled people. But, how important actually is legislation for the empowerment of disabled people? To answer this question, the authors take a closer look at social movements and their involvement in empowerment and active citizenship. We criticise the disregard of differences and care in notions of active citizenship and propose instead the idea of a ‘varied society’ based on the notions of diverse and ‘careful citizenship’. One of the main arguments is that empowerment strategies necessary to create this kind of society are above all bottom-up strategies. However, the highly organised disability movement in the Netherlands is confronted with strategic paradoxes that have ‘depowering’ consequences. Based on these paradoxes, five recommendations for the disability movement in the Netherlands are presented.
This volume is the first of a three part report on a BMA project examining public and professional attitudes and understanding around end-of-life care issues and options. Part 1 seeks to set the scene against which the qualitative research commissioned by the BMA has been conducted, outlining the context in which public, parliamentary, and professional debate has been conducted, and bringing together both peer-reviewed research and surveys of opinion. The review examines: end of life care practice in the UK; practical challenges in end of life care, including mental capacity and decision making, depression, prescribing in the post-Shipman era, and accuracy of doctors’ estimates of survival for dying patients; the debate on assisted dying in the UK; and the international evidence on assisted dying, looking at the Netherlands, Belgium, Oregon and Switzerland. In addition, the report contains a comparative table of international legislation. The main focus of this review is on adults although there are profound implications both for children who are themselves dying and for children who have been bereaved.
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This volume is the first of a three part report on a BMA project examining public and professional attitudes and understanding around end-of-life care issues and options. Part 1 seeks to set the scene against which the qualitative research commissioned by the BMA has been conducted, outlining the context in which public, parliamentary, and professional debate has been conducted, and bringing together both peer-reviewed research and surveys of opinion. The review examines: end of life care practice in the UK; practical challenges in end of life care, including mental capacity and decision making, depression, prescribing in the post-Shipman era, and accuracy of doctors’ estimates of survival for dying patients; the debate on assisted dying in the UK; and the international evidence on assisted dying, looking at the Netherlands, Belgium, Oregon and Switzerland. In addition, the report contains a comparative table of international legislation. The main focus of this review is on adults although there are profound implications both for children who are themselves dying and for children who have been bereaved.
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Subject terms:
literature reviews, law, end of life care, assisted dying, adults, comparative studies;
Content type:
research review
Location(s):
United Kingdom, Switzerland, Netherlands, United States, Belgium
...the following headings: academic publications and research reports; employment statistics and trends; laws and policies, type and quality of jobs; specific examples of good practice; and conclusions and recommendations. The latest statistics on employment of people with disabilities in the Netherlands date from 2007. The employment rate for people with physical disabilities is 37%, compared to 66% of people
This report, relating specifically to the Netherlands, is one of a series reviewing national implementation of the European Employment Strategy from a disability equality perspective. It provides an update as at November 2009 to a first report published in 2008. Evidence is summarised, along with a comment on the current economic crisis. It is then briefly reviewed in a standardised format under the following headings: academic publications and research reports; employment statistics and trends; laws and policies, type and quality of jobs; specific examples of good practice; and conclusions and recommendations. The latest statistics on employment of people with disabilities in the Netherlands date from 2007. The employment rate for people with physical disabilities is 37%, compared to 66% of people without disabilities. Age and gender have an impact on the likelihood of a disabled person being unemployed. Overall unemployment was projected to be around 6.2% in 2010. There is growing concern about the number of young people applying for disability benefits. A new law and several pilot projects have been introduced to enhance job opportunities for disabled people, particularly the young. In September 2009 a temporary law was introduced allowing employers to pay workers with a disability less than the minimum wage, the pay is supplemented by municipal governments. A national hiring quota was considered by rejected.
Subject terms:
labour market, law, disabilities, employment, equal opportunities, government policy;
In all modern countries a good death and relief of suffering are important issues of public debate. The bioethical debate in the Netherlands is unique since it has been focusing on the issue of euthanasia for more than thirty years. This book describes the debate, explains its origins, and analyses its development, resulting in the legislation of euthanasia. It also presents data on the medical practice of euthanasia with examples of cases. The book details the evolution as well as the complexities of the legal responses to physician involvement in euthanasia. The authors analyze the ethical debate concerning euthanasia, discussing the pros and cons of medical termination of human life. The book concludes with a section on the lessons to be learned from the Dutch experience.
In all modern countries a good death and relief of suffering are important issues of public debate. The bioethical debate in the Netherlands is unique since it has been focusing on the issue of euthanasia for more than thirty years. This book describes the debate, explains its origins, and analyses its development, resulting in the legislation of euthanasia. It also presents data on the medical practice of euthanasia with examples of cases. The book details the evolution as well as the complexities of the legal responses to physician involvement in euthanasia. The authors analyze the ethical debate concerning euthanasia, discussing the pros and cons of medical termination of human life. The book concludes with a section on the lessons to be learned from the Dutch experience.
Subject terms:
law, pain, death, ethics, euthanasia, general practitioners;